Quotes About Politics

The reality of this election is that we can choose between a disappointing Democrat and the end of the world.

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

Open avowal of dictatorship is much less dangerous than sham democracy. The first one can fight; sham democracy is insidious.

One cannot equate "capitalism" and "democracy.

The word fascism is not a word of abuse any more than the word capitalism is. It is a concept denoting a very definite kind of mass leadership and mass influence: authoritarian, one-party system, hence totalitarian, a system in which power takes priority over objective interests, and facts are distorted for political purposes. Hence, there are "fascist Jews," just as there are "fascist Democrats.

Fascism of the masses is nothing but disillusioned radicalism plus nationalistic philistinism

Politically, we are still stuck in the systems of thought of the Greek and Roman slave states, no matter how much we rant about "democracy.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

you can't fool all the people all the time," but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

the illusion of valid prediction remains intact, a fact that is exploited by people whose business is prediction—not only financial experts but pundits in business and politics, too.

Your political preference determines the arguments that you find compelling. If you like the current health policy, you believe its benefits are substantial and its costs more manageable than the costs of alternatives. If you are a hawk in your attitude toward other nations, you probably think they are relatively weak and likely to submit to your country's will.

ideas about politics and economics are a lot like movie stars. If people think that other people like them, such ideas can go far.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

A política exterminacionista, inicialmente, tinha a ver com o extermínio dos indígenas por considerá-los um empecilho para a exploração colonial. Em seguida, foi gestada a política assimilacionista, com a clara intenção de fazer as diferenças desaparecerem como em um passe de mágica, desejando que os indígenas fossem assimilados pela cultura europeia.

The people went mad over these big games and didn't care if Caesar became dictator or not as long as he kept them amused. But

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.